Books: Ice-Cream Case

Two years, ago, in Milan, Italy, a new weekly magazine called Omnibus
appeared. Skillfully edited by Leo Longanesi, 33-year-old Fascist
journalist, it printed political articles, photographs of pretty women
and, as its specialty, the fiction of such little-known foreigners as
Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell. Italy's best
magazine, Omnibus quickly became its most popular as well, with readers
clamoring for more & more contemporary U.S. authors.

Particularly steady readers were Mussolini's censors. Last month they
decided they had read enough. Omnibus was suppressed, and Editor
Longanesi was told by Minister of Press and Propaganda Dino Alfieri
that he would not again...